Jack Olsen, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (367p) ISBN 978-0-688-10903-5 Olsen (Son) has established himself so firmly near the pinnacle of true-crime writers that anything from him not a ...

Jack Olsen, whose well-researched nonfiction portraits of serial killers, rapists and assorted other criminals and their victims earned him a reputation as "the dean of true-crime writers," has died.

Jack Olsen, crime writer, dead at 77 By GORDY HOLT , SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER July 18, 2002 A perfect exit, except that at 77, he was getting better with every book.

Olsen was the most prolific, innovative writer of serious true crime books in recent memory. From his home near Seattle, he researched and wrote a book every two years or so.

Thirteen is suddenly a lucky number for Gregg Olsen, the true crime writer from Olalla on the Kitsap Peninsula. That's because his account of an Amish serial murderer in the 1980s, "Abandoned ...

Jack Olsen’s “Predator” (Pantheon, 402 pages, $23) is formulaic true crime: It offers a seedy profile of a sociopathic loser who eventually confesses to raping more than 50 women, mostly in ...